The MakerDAO neighborhood authorised and executed a vote on Thursday to virtually double the full debt ceiling, which signifies how a lot Dai (DAI)
The MakerDAO neighborhood authorised and executed a vote on Thursday to virtually double the full debt ceiling, which signifies how a lot Dai (DAI) might be minted by its customers.
An announcement by the Maker Basis posted on July 29 particulars the particular proposal to boost the debt ceilings for Ether (ETH), USD Coin (USDC), Wrapped Bitcoin (WBTC) and others.
The vote handed at eight a.m. UTC on July 30 and was executed at 10 p.m. UTC on the identical day.
Particularly, the proposal raised the debt ceiling for ETH by 80 million to 340 million whole, which follows two related proposals that raised the ceiling from 160 million in early July.
Ceilings for different cash have been additionally raised, as two USDC vaults with totally different parameters have been raised by 100 million to a 170 million whole, the WBTC ceiling was doubled to 40 million, and Primary Consideration Token (BAT) limits have been raised by 2 million to a complete of 5 million.
This raises the utmost provide of DAI to 568 million, out of which 367 million have been minted up to now, in keeping with DaiStats.
The peg shouldn’t be taking place
The drastic improve is motivated by the truth that DAI has usually traded above its peg of $1 ever for the reason that occasions of Black Thursday in March, with a present market value of $1.02. The deviation has been exacerbated by the yield farming wars that began since June, as they stimulated demand for DAI.
For the reason that Maker system ensures that DAI is each minted and burned at a value of $1, creating new DAI ought to permit for the market value to go down as new provide enters circulation.
Members of the Maker neighborhood famous that the venture basically sponsored DAI minters by setting the ETH stability price at zero, permitting vault creators to borrow DAI for gratis. DAI provide tripled for the reason that starting of July, however that didn’t totally restore the peg.
One doable cause why is DAI’s predominance in yield farming. About 50 million DAI is at present locked in Balancer pool to mine the YFII token, a clone of the YFI token that briefly dominated yield farming liquidity. The Compound DAI contract at present holds 172 million DAI, a major improve since earlier this week.
Thus it seems that a good portion of the DAI provide is getting used on to earn rewards, as a substitute of being offered for a better value than it was obtained for and restoring the stability.
Plans to drive the peg
The Maker neighborhood is at present discussing a direct arbitrage mechanism referred to as the Peg Stabilization Module, which might create the opportunity of instantly swapping between DAI and USDC at a compelled 1:1 charge.
The concept is nonetheless discovering some opposition, as many voiced issues of extreme reliance on USDC and a elementary change to the mechanism of the DAI peg from collateral-backed to market-based peg interventions.
Another proposals floated in the neighborhood would contain a yield farming-like system of rewarding DAI minters with new Maker (MKR) tokens.